bugs Beddow band
"Here Comes The Sun" Party, The Cove, Leland, MI
Memorial Day Monday, May 26, 2003 1-5pm
The Sun Party People
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"Hey...there I am! Omigod...that's me...right there...see?"

Johnny Vidergar leads the Sun Party dance line

"Aloha" from Joy Selkeld

Dave & Becky Paul secure a much coveted table close to the stage

"...and this dude only came up to here on Rick Wanroy!"

"Looks like Dave Paul has a grip on things." exclaims Johnny Vidergar to Doug Steinhof

It's gettin' kinda full on the deck.

Sandy Bloss gathering up enough sun to last the summer

bugs & Glenn discuss the Joy of the Sun Party

"Yeah!"

bugs Beddow CD's bring you Joy (and vice-versa!)

Benji and his GHOUL glasses

Sandy Bloss & James Morse geting toasted

bugs Beddow and former bandmate in Newt & the Salamanders in 1976-1977, keyboardist/vocalist Tim Sparling

You guys rock!

A parting shot from the roof of The Cove, looking westward down the Leland River.

The third boat on the right is THE JOY, the chub boat that the bands used to play on when the Here Comes The Sun Party first started in the mid-1980's. By the mid-1990's, Lake Michigan & Leland River levels had fallen so much that The Joy could not make it up the shallow water anymore and the band started playing on the south deck. The bugs Beddow band was the last band to play on The Joy in May 1998.

The boat's owner Ross Lang, died during a tragic fishing accident in the spring of 2001, had named the boat after his wife, Joy, whom was postmaster of Leland for thirty years.